Seattle's goal of building 500 supportive housing units by year's end slips a bit
Last summer Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan launched a campaign to build 500 units of supportive housing for homeless people by the end of 2021.
One of the five pilot program projects, Ballard Crossing, is about to start construction, but it won't be done until mid-2022, according to a spokesperson for Plymouth Housing, the Seattle nonprofit partner on the project.
Emily Alvarado, director of Seattle's Office of Housing, said that while Ballard Crossing's schedule has slipped some, Seattle remains on track to meet the three goals of the pilot: scale permanent supportive housing, achieve cost efficiencies and accelerate the development timeline of permanent supportive housing, which she said "is the proven solution to homelessness."
Even with the deviation from the original schedule, Alvarado said what is happening "still remains faster than the regular timeline for permanent supportive housing production and, quite frankly, faster than a lot of what we're seeing in the private market right now."
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